On February 17, Farmed and Dangerous — Chipotle's four-part comedic, but serious series on corporate farming — begins airing on Hulu. Watch the hilarious trailer here or by clicking on the embedded video below. We posted earlier on Chipotle's unusual and evocative video about the treatment of animals in large-scale farming.
Author Archives: Brian Wolfman
Well, so do some consumers, whose federal antitrust suit against the dominant provider of Internet service on commercial airlines — Gogo, Inc. — has survived a motion to dismiss. Go here for a description of the case and the court's decision denying Gogo's motion to dismiss. The case is pending before federal district judge Edward […]
The folks at EcoNews are reporting on the latest climate change data from NASA. Click here or on the embedded vido below to view a 15-second NASA time-lapse video that depicts the warming of the planet since 1950. Note that parts of the Arctic and Siberia have warmed as much as two to four degrees farenheit […]
The National Consumer Law Center has issued Tax-time consumer troubles, which warns consumers about a host of problems that they may encounter from largely worthless (but expensive) refund-anticipation products and from abuse and incompetence in the tax-preparation industry. We posted last December on NCLC's comprehensive report on that industry, which included specific proposals for reform.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau brought an administrative enforcement action yesterday against morgage originator giant PHH Corporation alleging, among other things, violations of the anti-kickback provisions of The Real Estate Settlements Procedures Act (RESPA). To quote the agency's press release: Today, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) initiated an administrative proceeding against PHH Corporation and […]
William Alden explains that Shiela Bair, former Chair and board member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, has joined the board of the Spanish bank Banco Santander. She left the FDIC in 2011 and said the next year in her book about the financial crisis that “I would like to see financial regulation be viewed […]
We've covered the Target data breach and posted pieces (here, for instance) suggesting what consumers can do to mitigate the risks from that breach and others like it. Now, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has issued a consumer advisory of its own on the topic. The agency has also issued a press release, which I'm […]
OSHA has proposed making public workplace illness and injury reports, but employers are opposed and have asked their lawyers to try to nix the proposal. Read Jenna Greene's article here.
by Brian Wolfman According to this Associated Press story, in 2012, the Vermont Attorney General sued a company called Vermints under Vermont’s consumer protection law alleging that Vermints had mislabeled its mints “Vermont’s All-Natural Mints” (my emphasis). What was the AG’s beef with the label? According to the suit, the company is Massachusetts-based and the […]
We've covered extensively the law and policy fight against obesity and noted that there's been some (barely) measurable progress recently. That's the theme of this article from The Economist. Here's an excerpt: The overweight American, slurping a bucket of soda in his car, is an international stereotype. Thankfully, fewer Americans fit the mould. Obesity rates among […]